"Issue 2 kind of winds the clock back a little bit and lays out exactly how and why things are the way they are," he told Time. "And it lays out a roadmap for where things are headed in the future. At this point, I don't want to say too much definitively because I want people to read the comic books. But people will be able to connect the dots and follow the trail of breadcrumbs."

Cast and Crew members of the film pose for photographers at a media event ahead of the release of, "Captain America: Civil War", in London, Britain, April 25, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

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Brevoort added that this idea has been around for over a year.

"It means on the most fundamental level that the most trusted hero in the Marvel universe is now secretly a deep-cover Hydra operative, a fact that's really only known to the readers and to him," he said." That makes every interaction he has with anyone take on a second layer, a second meaning."